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Lil Sis
Member since Apr-22-04
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Aug-04-10, 08:45 AM (CST) |
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anyone wear jewlery that belonged to a loved one? Up until the last few months our mom wore a silver hammered/mexican looking bracelet. When SEP and I were cleaning out Mom's room after she passed, I asked Susan if I could take the bracelet. I've been wearing it every day since...I love having it. Dad had 2 rings and, for a few years after Dad's death in 1992, SEP told me she had Dad's ring on just cuz it felt good. We also have my grandmother's beautiful bracelet in SEP's safety deposit box. Neither of us have worn it because A. I have nowhere to wear it and B. neither of us liked her very much. |
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TElmgren
Member since Oct-3-08
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Aug-04-10, 09:49 AM (CST) |
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1. "RE: sentimental jewelry"
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>anyone wear jewlery that belonged to a loved one? I am very sentimental, so I LOVE to wear heirloom jewelry. I have a faux pearl choker that my Mom wore as a teenager back in the late 40's and early 50's that I just love. The pearls are kind of an off white color and it's on a flexible wire instead of string. It makes me feel very Audrey Hepburn when I wear it. I also have a coin bracelet that my Mom received as a child during WW II from one of the many soldiers that stayed at their house. My grandparents were absolutely amazing people and among their many contributions to society one of the things they did was to put up soldiers who were home from the war on short leave. My Mom became good friends and pen pals with one of them and he sent her a coin bracelet that he had made with coins from the various places that he'd visited. It's really cool and after years of begging she finally gave it to me.  My husband wears his fathers wedding band. He lost his original one just two months after we got married when we were having a cookout with some friends and he got carried away during a softball game and threw his glove (and we found out later his ring with it) after a really bad missed catch.  We looked for it for two hours, we even got a metal detector out there and had all of the kids helping us. As far as I know, that ring is still on the ground somewhere outside of the American military housing in Landstuhl Germany. He wore a plain gold band until his father passed away 11 years ago and now he wears his fathers band which I really love even though it has the engraving from his parents instead of ours. Tori in South Carolina |
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Lynda V
Member since Apr-22-04
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Aug-04-10, 11:14 AM (CST) |
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I have several pieces of my mothers that she wore all the time. The one I normall wear alot is the small band of diamonds ring that my Dad gave her for their 25th anniversary...along with the one my DH gave me for our 25th. Just put them away to wear another ring that came from her too...gold with 3 larger diamonds in it. I gave my daughter my Mom's neckless that belonged to her mother that my mother wore at her wedding, I wore it at mine and my daughter wore it at her wedding. I also have an opal ring that belonged to my mother, that came from her mother. 5 opals in a row, but it is in really bad condition. I have taken it in several times to have it repaired, but it is just too costly, but some day I will do it as it is really pretty. I had a friend call my yesterday asking me to come see what pieces of jewlery I would like that belonged to his wife who passed away a few months ago...she has some beautiful things, but I'm stalling about going over. It will break my heart to go through her things, but he wants me to have something of hers. ~~LighthouseLady~~
East Coast of Central Florida |
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Cheryl
Member since Oct-9-08
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Aug-04-10, 07:45 PM (CST) |
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This reminds me of jewelry that my siblings and I had made from the roses of the funeral flowers from both of our parents. The website is www.roses2remember.com You send the roses to her and she makes them into black beads and incorporates it with crystal and silver to make bracelets, necklaces, earrings etc. My parents didn't have anything that I recall and even if they did, it would be hard to split it 9 ways!!! LOL Cheryl
St. Charles, Missouri |
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efy
Member since Nov-17-08
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Aug-05-10, 11:12 PM (CST) |
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>anyone wear jewlery that belonged to a loved one?
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I wear my father's ruby pinkie ring. It has an enormous stone that looks like a cocktail ring on me.It was my parent's "engagement" ring til he bought the diamond.
It was my sister's temprary engagemnt ring also - dad loaned it to her fiance as an act of faith and trust in them. They have great marriages, I hope a bit of that rubs off on me... Efy (Sydney)
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DeniseClaire
Member since Apr-22-04
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Aug-09-10, 11:59 PM (CST) |
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There are 3 girls and 2 boys in my birth family. All of us girls had only sons and one of my brothers had two girls. My mom died last year and apparently told my brother that she wanted his girls to have her three rings. My sisters and I were very surprised, and a little hurt that she didn't ever tell us that this was her wish. We found out after the funeral. We figure that she figured her daughters all had boys who wouldn't be interested in her rings. We are okay with it. Anyway, I had to go through her clothing, handbags and shoes this Spring. That was really hard. Brought a lot home and I do wear her stuff. It does feel comforting. http://thatwouldbeme-deniseclaire.blogspot.com/ Denise Claire in Colorado |
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dmummey
Member since Jul-3-08
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Aug-10-10, 11:13 PM (CST) |
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This is a Great Question and I love the wonderful stories! Here is mine, I come from a very sentimental family who just happens to LOVE jewelry
My grandmother and her Daughter (my Aunt)
Were nuts over anything from a jewelry store.
When my grandmother was alive she wore this huge gold nugget bracelet
It was just about the most guady thing I have ever seen.( from the 90's) It was 18k gold and about 1.5 inches thick. I teased her about it, and it became our long running joke. I would say how ugly it was and she would say you just wait, your getting it when I am gone. And we would laugh. In 2003, I was contacted by the RED CROSS, She passed away from cancer and
after the Funeral Her Daughter (my Aunt) Told me "Grandma left something very special just for you she wanted you to have it" I had no idea what it could be and when My aunt brought me a small square jewelry box I just started laughing. I laughed so hard I cried. Everyone thought I had lost my mind. I just stared & stared at that box knowing it was that DARN ugly bracelet! I opened the box and gasped. It was her huge diamond anniversary band! I just kept looking at it and when I looked up at my Aunt I saw how proud & pleased she looked and I knew in that moment. She had picked this out from My grandmother's things for me. It had not come directly from my grandmother. Grandma would have given me that ugly bracelet.
I wanted to ask about it, but didn't want to seem greedy. At that time I had no idea, that in a few short years we would lose my Aunt ( 51) to cancer also. After her funeral, my cousin brought me a gift bag and told me she put somethings aside for me. Buy this time the bracelet story was well known family wide so once again I laughed and opened the box. ruby and diamond earrings! I finally broke down and asked my Cousin and he took me to her room and I went through everything. In the end no one knows what happened to it. As close as we can tell my Aunt sold it before she died when Gold was really high. I still think about it and laugh and although I ended up with a diamond ring, diamond tennis bracelet, ruby and diamond earrings, amethiest ring... all I really wanted was that stupid ugly bracelet. DAWN |
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